Picture the scene: the landing light flickers when the kettle goes on, a socket in the sitting room has quietly given up, and the fuse board under the stairs still holds its original rewirable fuses. If that sounds like your Arundel home, a rewire may be due — and it ends, reassuringly, with a test certificate confirming everything is safe.
For most households the real worry isn't the wiring, it's the upheaval — which is why our Part P registered electricians, after years spent rewiring houses across West Sussex, plan each job so rooms are taken in sequence, furniture stays protected, and your home remains liveable from the first morning to the last.
Whether yours is a flint-and-brick cottage on the hill, a Victorian townhouse near the river or an interwar semi towards the edge of town, we handle full house rewires and smaller wiring upgrades with the same quiet, tidy approach.
If you'd like a feel for the cost before anyone visits, the online estimate takes a couple of minutes — or ring us and we'll arrange a survey at a time that suits the household.
There is little an Arundel property can spring on a team that has rewired period cottages, townhouses and estate semis for this long — and that familiarity is what keeps a job calm, tidy and on schedule.
Because every stage is sequenced before we arrive, most full rewires around Arundel come in at two to five days — short enough that the disturbance passes before it becomes a strain.
As Part P registered electricians working to the 18th Edition, we close every rewire with formal testing and an Electrical Installation Certificate — so the peace of mind is documented, not just promised.
Whenever a question occurs to you — before the job, midway through, or months afterwards — you'll reach an electrician who knows your house, rather than a stranger with a screen of notes.
If handing your home over to a contractor feels daunting, this is where the reassurance begins: every Arundel rewire we undertake sits under Part P registration, meaning the work is properly notified, inspected and certificated.
Our electricians pass their working week in West Sussex properties of every era, from listed cottages to postwar semis, and each installation is designed and tested to the 18th Edition Wiring Regulations.
While the team on site keeps dust sheets down and rooms in order, the office keeps you informed — confirming dates, fielding questions and sending your certificate on promptly once testing is complete.
"We stayed in our Victorian townhouse on Maltravers Street for the whole week it was being rewired, which friends warned would be miserable. It wasn't. The electricians moved through one room at a time, kept the kitchen going, tidied up every evening and left the walls skimmed for the decorator. You'd scarcely have known they were in."
It's a common niggle in older Arundel homes — and often a modest set of upgrades is enough to put minds at rest.
Explore wiring upgradesFrom first fix through to testing and certification, we talk you through each step so nothing comes as a shock.
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About Brighton RewireFor most families, the real question isn't whether the house needs rewiring — it's whether daily life can carry on while it happens.
It can. The majority of Arundel homes we rewire are finished within two to five days, and the household stays in residence for nearly all of them.
We manage that by sequencing the work: one room is cleared, wired and closed up before the next is touched, so there is always somewhere calm to retreat to.
Years spent rewiring West Sussex homes, Arundel's included have taught us where the awkward corners tend to hide, which keeps the schedule honest and the disturbance brief.
Making good comes as standard too — chases filled and skimmed before we go — so what remains afterwards is decorating, never repair.
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It's worth saying early that many of the Arundel homes we visit need far less than a full rewire — but certain signals deserve attention rather than a shrug, and these are the ones we always investigate:
If just one of these rings true, don't assume the worst — an inspection and some focused remedial work is often all that's required, and we'll always tell you honestly which side of the line your home falls.
So there's never any doubt about what you're agreeing to, each full rewire we quote for an Arundel home includes all of the following:
Most Arundel rewires run to 2–5 days, and although the size of the house sets the broad timescale, it's the finer details — floor construction, cable routes, the odd discovery beneath a floorboard — that settle the exact figure.
You needn't move out. Rooms are taken singly and handed back as we go, the kitchen and a bathroom stay in service for all but a few hours, and the electricity is only fully off while the new consumer unit goes in.
Wall repairs are part of the service rather than an extra: each chase is filled and skimmed before we finish, leaving only the decorating to follow once the plaster has dried through.
See the day-by-day processHowever daunting it may feel at the outset, electrical rewiring generally resolves into one of two well-trodden paths — and in Arundel we've guided every kind of home down both, from hillside cottages to edge-of-town semis, always leaving the place tidy behind us.
Here's how the two compare, so you can see roughly where your house sits.
When cabling is failing across the board — perhaps the fuse box is elderly, a switch occasionally tingles, or the installation simply predates modern living — the dependable remedy is a complete home rewire. Moving through the property in stages, we replace each circuit, test continuously, install a new consumer unit and finish with fresh sockets, switches and lighting, keeping rooms liveable as we go.
See what's includedWhere the core wiring still tests soundly, a wiring upgrade can be the gentler answer — renewing tired runs of cable, or lifting the consumer unit, earthing and bonding to today's standard without disturbing the whole house. Our Part P registered team inspect what's already there first, and should the survey show the system genuinely needs replacing, we'll explain why rather than quietly patching it.
Explore upgrade optionsAnd if your home seems to fall between the two, don't worry — where testing shows the cabling itself remains healthy, a new consumer unit may be all that's needed to bring an older Arundel installation up to date, and where only part of the property needs rewiring we'll happily quote for a partial job. It's the survey that decides, never the sales patter.
Scenes from rewiring jobs around Arundel and West Sussex, showing the stages most homeowners never get to watch — first fix, new boards, and the neat final result.
Fill in the online estimate or pick up the phone — whichever feels more comfortable.
Our lead electrician walks the house with you, usually inside twenty minutes, answering questions as you go.
Within a day or so a clear fixed price arrives by email, with time to consider it at your own pace.
School runs, work patterns, visitors — the start date is planned around whatever your week holds.
Ahead of the first morning we confirm the room sequence and access, so nothing feels sprung on you.
The team lands early, lays protective sheets through the house and talks the plan over before a tool comes out.
You'll hear how things are moving as each room is handed back, and queries get a same-day answer.
Testing, certification and a final look around together — we only leave once you're entirely settled.
Rather than pricing from a standard tariff, we let a survey do the talking, because bedrooms, circuit numbers, cable routes and your preferred fittings all pull the figure one way or another. If you'd like an early idea without committing to anything, the rewire cost calculator offers a sensible starting point in a couple of minutes, and a free survey then firms it up into a fixed quote.
It shouldn't — 2–5 days covers most Arundel homes. Flats tend to finish sooner, while larger houses, solid floors or tricky access stretch things a little. Because rooms are rewired in sequence, even the longer jobs stay manageable to live alongside, and your quote sets out the expected schedule.
Very much so. As well as Arundel we're often found in Slindon, Walberton, Fontwell, Amberley, Burpham and Lyminster, with nearby Littlehampton covered too. Wherever you sit along this stretch of West Sussex, one quick phone call will confirm that we can get to you.
Better than you might fear. Cutting chases does mark the walls, but repairing them is written into the job: each one is filled and given a skim of fresh plaster before we sign off, so surfaces are ready for redecoration. The painting itself waits with you for a fortnight or so, while the plaster dries enough to accept a mist coat.
We are Part P registered, and every installation is tested against BS 7671, the 18th Edition of the Wiring Regulations. At handover you'll be given an Electrical Installation Certificate — the paperwork that conveyancers, insurers and letting agents expect to see, and a useful baseline for any EICR in years to come.
Arundel is a small West Sussex market town gathered beneath its castle, the historic seat of the Dukes of Norfolk, with the French Gothic cathedral of Our Lady and St Philip Howard rising on the skyline above the River Arun. Steep medieval and Victorian streets climb up from the water, lined with flint-and-brick period cottages and handsome townhouses, and behind those elegant frontages the wiring is frequently long past its best. Newer semis and bungalows sit further out toward the fringes of the town. A great deal of that older stock is now well beyond the age at which its wiring should be inspected or renewed — which is exactly the sort of home our Arundel rewires are built around.
Our Part P registered electricians are on the road across West Sussex every week, so Arundel (BN18) and the villages around it are firmly inside our patch. One call books a survey; we handle the rest.
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